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The conservative movement is lying about basically every empirical "debate" of our time, from climate change to voter fraud to vaccines. Why is it so impossible for reactionary centrists to contemplate the possibility they're lying about trans healthcare too?

submitted 11 hours ago • 77 comments

right-wingers will often say that America deserves credit for ending slavery rather than blame for having slavery. but then we made a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery and they still got mad, which should tell you what their real objection is.

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity. ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.

submitted 22 hours ago • 130 comments

If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.

submitted 16 hours ago • 37 comments

Toad fell into the pond.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

Exactly what I said!

submitted 1 day ago • 236 comments

And is the (transparent) intent of the Trump administration beyond the sight of CBS journalism?

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

submitted 1 day ago • 166 comments

on top of the “constituent” thing, Abrego Garcia was not an illegal immigrant! he was under a withholding of removal order, meaning he was living and working here legally

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Folks, no need to worry, the Senate is ON IT, working tirelessly to pass a bill that <checks notes> forces the FDIC to prioritize cryptocurrency ahead of actual deposits in the event of a bank failure.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

you’re politicians in elected office. you don’t let your moment get busted up by that doofus cmon.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Appalling. Could this @nbcnews.com headline be any more credulous? Time to drop this "Donald the Dove" mythology already. It's never been true (see below).

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

Each child death is an immense tragedy. This year, more children died of flu than in 15 years. Child flu vaccines are essential. “There are likely several contributors to this season’s severity, but a big one is that fewer children get flu shots” - Dr. Sean O’Leary of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

More evidence that we should stop using 'distraction' to describe policy. It's all deliberately cruel - and gender-affirming care is healthcare, Dem leaders are spectacularly failing to meet this moment.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

GREAT KHAN!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Oh look. Another "Gender Critical" myth about trans healthcare, for which they have no evidence at all, disproven via study. When we all knew it was false all along anyway

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Trans rights are human rights

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submitted 2 days ago • 531 comments

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Helicopters. Armed troops wearing masks. All for a freaking military-grade raid at a flea market that appears to have resulted in two measly arrests. DHS and ICE are out of control. ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 3 days ago • 307 comments

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

submitted 2 days ago • 769 comments

none of these people are capable of analyzing politics in terms anything other than their narrowest and most petty resentments

submitted 2 days ago • 112 comments

Democratic politicians & consultants should spend less time yapping about the effect of random leftist social media posts on their branding, and more time dealing with the Democratic Senator taking a pro-Trump position with a mere 16% popular support then adding, for flair, the language of genocide.

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

The cops always lie. Always.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The Right excommunicated Liz Cheney; it just cast out Brad Raffensberger, and even Elon Musk is on the verge of entering the camp of the damned, where he would join Trump's entire first term cabinet, chief of staff, personal lawyer and right hand man, oh, and his first Vice President

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 3 days ago • 739 comments

As always with Republicans, untaxed inheritance for me, a lifetime of hard work & no benefits for thee

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

Donald Trump refuses to be the President of all Americans because he doesn't think people who disagree with him are real Americans at all.

submitted 3 days ago • 87 comments

Awful. But there's no bipartisan-savvy, cautiously centrist way out of this. The Republicans are unleashing full police state fascism, throwing the Constitution in the trash and not pretending otherwise. Appeals to their good nature have been rejected for YEARS. What now, Democrats?

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Look, I don’t much care what Tulsi Gabbard says either, but here’s the thing: I didn’t appoint her to be my Director of National Intelligence.

submitted 3 days ago • 160 comments

Thomas Paine is spinning in his grave.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Every single day. on.ft.com/409SaZx

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

When Trump finally dies there will be calls for civility and “respect for the office” from even his harshest critics and I’m telling you right now I plan on saying things so harsh they might knock the earth off its axis

submitted 3 days ago • 279 comments

I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as the sickness of our political era. It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

We spent years being manipulated by conservatives with the ear of establishment centrists and liberals into addressing a fake free speech crisis, precisely so people could be punished for speaking out against perhaps the most contemporaneously well-documented genocide in history

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Anti-cancel culture is worse than cancel culture and always has been for the exact same reason that the excesses of democracy are always less bad than the excesses of monarchy/feudalism/totalitarianism.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Despite what US DOT Secretary Duffy says, federal transportation formula grants—which account for 80% of fed transport spending—legally cannot be conditioned on random criteria the Secretary comes up with.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments